“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“Few industries have had their death foretold more frequently than the book publishing industry, and yet somehow, miraculously, it seems to have… — John B. Thompson Copy Share Image
But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand.… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“To speak without shame about books we haven’t read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
After writing anything, there's always that postpartum feeling of, "What do I do now?" - I think particularly for nonfiction writers. I… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case… — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
“He eyed in the far corner of the room the carton of books they'd schlepped across the pond(ocean) They were both fearful… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“Our goal is not to finish a book, or merely to talk about a book, but to use our books to grow… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction. — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block. — David Liss Copy Share Image
What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Writing things down with a pen is a lot faster and more therapeutic than trying to type something on a tiny touchscreen… — Jodie Beau Copy Share Image
I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Sorry friend I don't known any author of this filled,, no ones is my ideal, it's my filling, my experience, or my… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“It might not be so unpleasant, you know, to do me one or two favours in exchange for becoming a famous authoress.” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“I want to write a novel that is so good it causes readers to ignore meals, sleep, work, friends and spouses!!” — R.E. Fisher Copy Share Image
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Books equals Knowledge. Knowledge qualifies you to get great Job. a Great job,in turn, makes you gain a sizeable fortune. So, pick… — Moulay Abdallah Boulaassair Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart." J.L. Bond” — J.L. Bond Copy Share Image
“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.” — Leona Rostenberg Copy Share Image
The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
